Main dishes

Arroz de cabidela is Portugal at its most fearless: chicken braised in wine and garlic, rice cooked in the resulting...

Some nights call for a meal that asks almost nothing of you and gives back plenty. Pan-cooked salmon over basil-and-lemon...

I met Kohlrouladen on a trip to Munich — a cozy restaurant on a side street, a menu I could...

Some days the craving for home arrives with tides and salt attached. Growing up, my mother and grandmother’s seafood stew...

Arroz de marisco regularly makes lists of the seven wonders of Portuguese food, and one pot explains why: rice simmered...

Caldeirada de bacalhau applies the great Portuguese fisherman’s-stew method to the king of fish: salt cod layered raw with potatoes,...

Hamam mahshi is one of Egypt’s grand old dishes: squab (young pigeon) stuffed with buttery rice, poached until tender, then...

I met attiéké at an African restaurant in New York, ordered it out of pure curiosity, and left planning my...

Discada is northern Mexico’s glorious answer to the question “what if we cooked six meats in one giant disc?” Traditionally...

I met pollo al limone — chicken limone — in a tiny side-street restaurant in Rome, one of those places...